Comments on: prabuddha dasgupta – longing https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: marcin luczkowski https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-111553 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:28:47 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-111553 Oh, I’ve just read the sad news.

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By: marcin luczkowski https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-111552 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:27:08 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-111552 Excellent sensitive and powerful work.

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By: Sam Harris https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-111550 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:14:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-111550 I am totally shocked and deeply saddened by the news of Prabuddha’s passing away yesterday.

He was still young and vibrant, a wonderful photographer, an eloquent speaker and such a charming and wonderful person.

I had the pleasure of seeing Prabuddha show his work and talk about it last October at the Delhi Photo Festival. Most sincerely i found his presentation the most touching and memorable of all that took part in the week long seminar. Everything he said was so heart felt, honest and thoughtful. Especially touching for me, was his series “Longing”. A different, more evolved edit to the one here. As he said, it was a work in progress, the edit in constant flux… I thought the version at Delhi was wonderful, i loved it and it was an undoubted highlight. Afterwards i wanted to talk with Prabuddha, i felt like just giving him a hug and saying thanks mate, that was great! but as he was always surrounded by festival goers, happily engaging, i thought ‘ah… i’ll catch him later when it’s a bit quieter…’

He will be greatly missed.

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By: Ram K https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-73837 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:40:06 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-73837 Thanks for sharing these images, hope to come for one of your exhibitions in the near future and witness your experiences first hand!

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By: Prabuddha Dasgupta ; Longing « ArjenPoort Photography https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-73648 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:47:29 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-73648 […] http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/ […]

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By: humansaibal https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72625 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:31:22 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72625 After a long days Prabuddha you have sent a work ,truly international standard.Good projects of human conflict is rare in Indian photographic scenario.Thank you Prabuddha for making us proud.

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By: eva https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72246 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:17:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72246 John Gladdy was right, big prints are THE way to have these displayed. Pity there are only four of them at the exhibition.. if it was possible I’d bought nr. 30 right away.. great!

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By: Eric Espinosa https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72237 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:44:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72237 PRABUDDHA,

You have some beautiful photographs…. This young beautiful woman captures the light and has a very special grace… The portrait 35 is absolutely captivating and nostalgic….

Well done.

Eric

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By: prabuddha https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72192 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:04:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72192 Thank you…all of you for your kind, generous and critical comments…and thank you David for the opportunity to be part of this wonderful forum.
I know this is kind of late for me to be responding…I have been traveling and have not had access to high speed internet connections in most areas, so by the time I got on, Margeaux Walter’s wonderful photograph was already up.
My sincere apologies to all…and to those who longed for or felt nostalgic about India after seeing the essay, I have one word..COME!!!

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By: peter grant https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72107 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:24:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72107 Hi Prabuddha,

reminded me also of certain vibes of India. Something like Rushdie could write about.

feeling nostalgic for the sub continent now… ridding down the Malabar coast.

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72104 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:48:31 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72104 You left me longing, too… longing to have known that beautiful woman as you have known her; longing to be young again and to know my wife as I once knew her (and lest no one misinterpret, I greatly love her now and am pleased to know her as she is) longing to have those cats leap up onto my lap and sit there, purring, as I stroke their foreheads and scritch their ears..

I do believe your essay conveys what you say you set out to convey.

I too, was puzzled by the fellow in the ending shot, but, what the hell – what’s wrong with leaving someone puzzled a bit?

Oh, yes… and longing to go back to India.

I always long to go back to India. I can’t quite figure it out, as India is the antithesis of all that I have ever sought – wild, open, space, free from the trampling crowd and clean air. Yet, I always long to go back.

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By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72102 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:11:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72102 “But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously…” –HOPSCOTCH, –julio cortazar

gorgeous :))

the cat broke my heart! :))

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By: kathleen fonseca https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72100 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:20:50 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72100 ut-oh..i really didn´t mean this the way it sounds..

¨post coital views of her face smoking¨

I meant obviously..¨post-coital views of her face as she smokes a cigarette¨

thought i better rephrase that, with all due respect.

k

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By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72098 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:38:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72098 Spectacular work! Does what (to me) the best art does and that is set up a vibrational energy between image and viewer, one that is all about feeling and less about narrative. Bravo, Prabuddha. You are one to watch…

Patricia

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By: Chantal https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72095 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:37:19 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72095 Hi Prabuddha, love your essay – it’s poetic, emotional & unique. All best, Chantal

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By: kathleen fonseca https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72091 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:17:34 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72091 Eva

while i did not see this work on his website, i do agree that a light background would bring these photos somewhat out of the gloom. I have the same problem myself with a nocturnal project of mine. A black background has the effect of completely swallowing up the subtlety of work that is already dark.

best
k-

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By: kathleen fonseca https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72090 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:13:20 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72090 Hi, Prabuddha

Congratulations on being published on Burn! You now can be said to burn even hotter than the bedroom photos in your essay, something i say with complete good cheer. I agreed with the comments made so far by Nastos, John, Gustav and Wendy..i watched the essay before reading your statement and i was a bit confused by the varying subject matter but since all were dark and dreamy, it made sense to me..something about life, love, passion, loss and the daily moments in-between which at the time seem humdrum but when glimpsed from behind the fading curtain of time begin to seem extraordinary.

I had no problem with the dark grainy look, whether photoshopped or not because the method was employed to wordlessly express your strongly felt vision which delved deeply into dreams, faint glimpses into the past; selective memory playing back on a scratchy record.

This essay would have worked incredibly well with just the bedroom photos and the one of the girl running on the beach as well as post coital views of her face smoking, etc. You could easily have done that but you chose to interweave contextual subject matter as well. The one photo i am not sure about is the last one since i don´t know who this person is or what he´s doing there. Maybe it´s only important that you know who he is and that he figures powerfully into your life but i was left with a question mark of puzzlement at the end.

Wishing you the very best of success with your projects:

Kathleen

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By: eva https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72089 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:02:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72089 Hello Prabuddha, I very much prefer the essay as it is shown on your website, both the editing and the sequencing.. also the light background helps to appreciate the pictures more (just my opinion of course).

Will visit the “Where Three Dreams Meet” exhibit on Friday and look for your pictures, I found two of them in the catalogue (well, book really) of the exhibit. Cheers!

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By: wendy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72087 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:38:42 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72087 ‘non linear narrative’
when I read that,
I wasn’t sure I understood…
after seeing your photos,
I understand…..
completely non linear,
and successful…
Love the bedroom series…
BRAVO!!
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By: Nasos Leontaridis https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/prabuddha-dasgupta-longing/#comment-72073 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:22:02 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6498#comment-72073 While looking your presentation it came to me a theatrical term, that is “dramatis personae”. Meaning to characterize your series as a dramatic work. This is how I perceived your work, theatrical in one hand but with a photographic essence on the other.
I’m not sure about some photos though, whether they fit (imo) to your series: #1,11,26,28,37. Other than that, it’s great.

Regards

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